Naomi Oppenheim leads on British Library 'Caribbean Foodways' project

Thanks to the AHRC’s CDP student development fund, Naomi Oppenheim has been working as the Caribbean Collections and Community Engagement intern at the Eccles Centre for American Studies. Since September 2020 she has been developing an exciting new project about Caribbean Food.

‘Caribbean Foodways at the British Library’ emphasises the importance of food in understanding histories of migration, community-building and culture. Through a series of initiatives, including oral history interviews, the British Library wants to start conversations with people both in the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora in the UK about life, history and politics through food. These oral histories will be deposited in the British Library’s Sound Archive and they will also be the basis for a series of blogs and an event in connection with the Library’s 2021 Food Season.

If you would like to find out more about how you can participate, please read Naomi’s blog ‘We’re calling for your Caribbean food stories’ on the American Collections blog.

Following her placement at the Eccles Centre, Naomi Oppenheim will resume her research on Caribbean publishing and activism at the Institute, under the supervision of Dr. Kate Quinn and Dr. Elizabeth Cooper.

Links:

Naomi Oppenheim - PhD profile

Eccles Centre for American Studies - website

The British Library American Collections blog - link

Dr. Kate Quinn - academic profile

Dr. Elizabeth Cooper - academic profile

Image:

West Indian World, 9 July 1971. British Library shelfmark: LOU.4359 [1971]